Browsing by Author "Rashid, Hamad"

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    Challenges of strategy implementation in the Saudi non-oil and gas industry: a qualitative investigation
    (2017-12) Alharthy, Abdullah H.; Pagliari, Romano; Rashid, Hamad
    The expanding pace of economic turbulence and increasing complexity of managing large organisations present challenges for business leaders in both developed and developing countries’ economies. This is particularly so for those that have been significantly dependant on oil and gas such as Saudi Arabia (KSA) where there is now a pressing need to diversify due to price volatility and the increased adoption of renewable sources of energy. Given the need for oil-dependent economies to diversify, greater attention needs to be focused on the performance of their non-oil and gas sectors. Using KSA as a case study, this research aims to develop a framework to facilitate effective strategy implementation through an exploration of aspects that improve strategy execution in the non-oil and gas sector. After exploring the process of strategy implementation through use of the grounded theory method, data was collected from semi-structured interviews and focus groups with senior management. The result of strategy formulation and implementation analysis identified 26 factors that affect strategy implementation in the Saudi non-oil and gas industry. The most obvious factors are: effective leadership style, a unified view of benefits realisation management, prioritising work activities, employee involvement and ownership (especially talent), efficiency in the allocation of resources, transparency and traceability of monitoring and control, the Saudi macro and micro environment, and the degree of communicational formality and frequency. This research makes an important contribution through the creation of a new theoretical framework titled ‘SIMPLE’, which functions as a pre-strategy execution checklist tool to achieve implementation success. Implementation success has a greater chance of being achieved if organisations are considered holistically and that there is sufficient appreciation of the social and human aspects, the need for communication, the environmental and cultural setting, as well as the organisation’s readiness for strategy implementation.
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    Factors influence employee engagement leveraging by organisational culture (pilot study in Libyan banking sector)
    (Scientific Journals International (SJI), 2017-02-28) McLaughlin, Patrick; Al-Ashaab, Ahmed; Rashid, Hamad
    The concept of organizational culture has been a subject of growing interest among many scholars owing to its impact in promoting engagement and organisational performance. Yet it still lacks sufficient application in the Arab world where sociocultural dynamics based on Islam tend to be unique in comparison to the western world. In Libya, this has been further complicated by the ongoing instability and volatile political climate that followed the fall of Gadhafi regime. This proof-of-concept study considered employee and managerial perceptions on the organisational culture promoting engagement in four Libyan banks. Specifically, it discusses the disparities between employee and managerial assessment of the key constraints to engagement and organisational culture at the workplace. The study identifies eleven areas of interest for the Libyan banks that are of concern including cooperation, corruption, experience, health, leadership, motivation, nepotism, teamwork, technology, training, and trust. The findings will be used to formulate new theory, determine key research themes, and refine the research agenda for an extended study.
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    A framework to improve lean implementation by review leveraging aspects of organizational culture: The case of Saudi Arabia
    (Inderscience, 2019-06-26) Alkhoraif, Abdullah; McLaughlin, Patrick; Rashid, Hamad
    Organisational culture is one of the most important factors to focus on to facilitate the implementation of lean within Saudi Arabian manufacturing. Thus, this article focuses on contributing to develop a framework to improve lean implementation into small and medium enterprise manufacturing organisations in Saudi Arabia by leveraging aspects of organisational culture. Qualitative research is confirmed to be useful for uncovering such insider views on qualitative and grounded theory inside action research with and an inductive approach. The proposed framework aimed to facilitate lean implementation by leveraging aspects of organisational culture. A series of interventions developed with participants. The planned interventions for SMEs are should take place together as a series of interlinked interventions. The contributions of this study are threefold: First, no previous framework of Lean implementation in SMEs, to knowledge about the failure of lean implementation. Finally, it supports the academic society with scheme for proposal future research.
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    Identification of strategy implementation influencing factors and their effects on the performance
    (International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2017-01-31) Alharthy, Abdullah H.; Rashid, Hamad; Pagliari, Romano; Khan, Faisal
    This paper investigates the factors that influence strategy execution in service organisations within both public and private sectors. The successful execution of the strategy is the key survival asset of the organisation. Many organisations could not maintain their competitive advantages, in spite of the existing process of drafting a strong strategy, due to lack of achievement in the strategy implementation stage. Leaders and top management of organisations must pay more attention to strategy implementation due to the higher failure rates that occur at this stage. For that, successful strategy implementation requires a better understanding of the relevant influencing factors that dictate that implementation’s outcomes. The existing literature does not provide a rigorous and structured conceptualisation of these factors, or their influence on strategy implementation. Accordingly, we precisely explored the mechanisms and interdependent abilities of such factors and their impact to address the gap. In addition, this paper presents many factors, which usually are neglected and cause failure or effect on the efficiency severity industry. This article also shows how some factors are more important in certain industry and l ess important in other industry in the Middle East.
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    Lean implementation in small and medium enterprises: Literature review
    (Elsevier, 2018-12-07) Alkhoraif, Abdullah; Rashid, Hamad; McLaughlin, Patrick
    There have been many literature reviews carried out on Lean implementation (LI) in larger organisations with specific focus on the automobile industry. Lean implementation among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has not been so extensively researched. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by reviewing the literature that discussed Lean implementation in SMEs with a perspective of identifying the main challenges faced. We applied the Systematic Review Methodology proposed by Tranfield et al. (2003). This methodology allows for more comprehensive and profounder analysis along three stages: planning, conducting, and reporting. For this study, 403 papers were utilized, with their titles, abstracts and keywords separately studied at early stages of the review. These were collated from specific databases that included: ABI/INFORM Global, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, Sage, Inderscince, BSCO Business Source Premier, ScienceDirect and Scopus. The collected information was classified into four categories for more synthesis. The aim of this study is to establish the current position of global understanding of Lean implementation in SME's, including examining the main categories of Lean implementation in the context of SMEs. Next, an inclusive discussion of associated Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Lean implementation within SME's is established that can be used as guide for SME's owners and managers. Suggestions for future research orientations are thus provided.
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    Reliability model for helicopter main gearbox lubrication system using influence diagrams
    (Elsevier, 2015-02-19) Rashid, Hamad; Place, Simon; Mba, David; Keong, R. L. C.; Kleine-Beek, Werner; Romano, M.
    This paper presents the development of a model to assess the reliability of helicopter main gearbox (MGB) lubricating systems. The loss of oil from a helicopter MGB will lead to increased friction between components, a rise in component surface temperatures, and subsequent mechanical failure of gearbox components. A number of significant helicopter accidents have been caused due to such loss of lubrication. Current certification requirements for Category A helicopters require that gearboxes which use pressurized lubrication systems must show a capability to continue operation for a period of 30 minutes after suffering a loss of oil. This paper reports on methods for assessing reliability of pressurized MGB lubrication systems. Safety risk modeling was conducted for MGB oil system related accidents and incidents in order to analyse the key failure mechanisms and the contributory factors. As such, the dominant failure modes for lubrication systems and key contributing components were identified. The Influence Diagram (ID) approach was then employed to investigate reliability issues of the MGB lubrication systems at the level of primary causal factors. Early indications show significant benefits from this approach where multiple influences would render alternative approaches overly complex. The ID tool can systematically investigate complex context of events, conditions, and influences that are direct triggers of failures. Within this study, an ID model was introduced to describe the interrelationships between MGB lubrication system failure types. In this way the influence of each of these factors on the overall MGB lubrication system reliability may be assessed.
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    The technology-culture interface and its impact on aviation safety: a North African perspective.
    (2018-03) Belaid, Zakria Abdulhamid Gamudi; Braithwaite, Graham R.; Rashid, Hamad
    The aviation industry in the North Africa Region (NAR) is still suffering from a high rate of fatal accidents in comparison to other regions. In 2016, about 128 passengers were killed in the Middle East and NAR, whereas in Europe just two passengers killed despite both regions using a similar aircrafts. Aviation companies within the NAR thus require safety performance improvement. The current research indicates that pilot decision-making performance in the cockpit is responsible for about 60% of aviation fatal accident in the global aviation industry. In addition, the current literature shows that pilots’ risk perception is directly influenced by the culture interface, which plays crucial role in shaping their decision-making performance. Accordingly, this study investigated the national culture impact on pilot decision-making performance in the cockpit within the NAR. A number of professional pilots from the NAR were surveyed and interviewed to explore this phenomenon. A mixed method research approach was implemented in this study, where 143 professional pilots from different levels were surveyed and 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted, to discover the extent to which these pilots are effect by the technology–culture interface within the NAR. The research investigated this phenomenon mainly based on four themes: cultural attributes, attitude to human and organisational factors, automation and risk perception; these are shown by the literature to be the most significant factors affecting the pilot risk perception in the cockpit. Ten factors were investigated, in addition to assessing the collective pilot’s risk perception within the NAR. The result indicated that NAR pilots are negatively affected by power distance, teamwork and automation as direct implications of the technology–culture interface. In addition, these pilots are suffering from high tolerance and acceptance of risk as an indirect impact of the regional national culture. Therefore, as the aim of this research is to enhance the pilot’s decision-making performance in the cockpit, a guideline for cultural calibration of the Crew Resource Management (CRM) training programme was proposed. This cultural calibration relies on development of the CRM curriculum by enhancing the pilot non-technical skills to overcome the effects of the technology–culture interface in the region. It also aims to improve their risk perception through introducing training in domain-specific risky events in the cockpit, which should enhance their ability to identify the cues that exist in risky situations. Furthermore, the limited research of aviation authorities and aviation safety departments’ roles regarding monitoring and enforcing the safety regulations and implementing proactive safety programmes in the aviation companies within the NAR negatively affect the progress of improving the safety performance.